Original title: Love Letter / The Moon Has Risen / Forever a Woman / The Wandering Princess / Girls of the Night / Love Under the Crucifix
Year: 1953 - 1962
Country: Japan
Region code: A
Contents: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515333016
Image: 1.37:1 / 2.35:1 / 2.39:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: Japanese - Mono
Subtitles: English
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Drama
Cast: Masayuki Mori, Chishu Ryu, Yumeji Tsukioka
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka
Synopsis:
Kinuyo Tanaka was already one of Japan's greatest actors—celebrated for her collaborations with auteurs such as Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse—when she took a brave leap by embarking on a directing career in a studio system that actively discouraged female filmmakers. The six features she made over the course of a decadent center on women characters who refuse to conform to restrictive roles as they seek independence. With compassion and insight, Tanaka critiques the social conditions and forces that shape her heroines' struggles: sex work and social shaming, the expectation of passively entering arranged marriages, taboos surrounding illness and the female body, imperialism, and religious persecution and forbidden love.
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